The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• macOS becomes iOS: Safari video controls [1d] [hn]
• Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case [1d] [hn]
• California bans face masks for ICE agents [1d] [hn]
• Bazel and Glibc Versions [1d] [hn]
• US Gov acknowledges that 100K fee does not apply to existing H-1B visas holders [pdf] [1d] [hn]
• Why do some gamers invert their controls? [2d] [hn]
• $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer [2d] [hn]
• A brief history of threads and threading [2d] [hn]
• Homegrown digital road maps turn into lifelines for West Bank’s Palestinians [2d] [hn]
• Starship will soon fly over towns and cities, but will dodge the biggest ones [2d] [hn]
• Philips announces digital pathology scanner with native DICOM JPEG XL output [2d] [hn]
• A revolution in English bell ringing [2d] [hn]
• Tariffs make it harder to justify US investments, automakers and suppliers warn [2d] [hn]
• Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche [2d] [hn]
• TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV [2d] [hn]
• New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says [2d] [hn]
• UNESCO Launches the First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects [2d] [hn]
• The LLM Lobotomy [2d] [hn]
• Designing NotebookLM [2d] [hn]
• Microsoft memo advises H1B employees to return immediately if currently abroad [2d] [hn]
• Seattle Ultrasonics: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife [2d] [hn]
• Are Touchscreens in Cars Dangerous? [2d] [hn]
• These days, systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons [2d] [hn]
• Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact [2d] [hn]
• Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe? [2d] [hn]
• Novelist Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a great science paper [pdf] [2d] [hn]
• The dawn of the post-literate society – and the end of civilisation [2d] [hn]
• What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive [2d] [hn]
• Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy storage [2d] [hn]
• Vapor Chamber Tech Keeps iPhone 17 Pro Cool [2d] [hn]
• Bezier Curve as Easing Function in C++ [2d] [hn]
• China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world [2d] [hn]
• Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or pay $100k fee [2d] [hn]
• Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty [2d] [hn]
• Images over DNS [2d] [hn]
• Czech founding father Masaryk's message revealed in long-sealed envelope [2d] [hn]
• The Gold Card [2d] [hn]
• Overcoming barriers of hydrogen storage with a low-temperature hydrogen battery [2d] [hn]
• FLX1s Is Launched [2d] [hn]
• Node 20 will be deprecated on GitHub Actions runners [2d] [hn]
• IG Nobel Prize Winners 2025 [2d] [hn]
• Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 3 [2d] [hn]
• For comedians around the world, the laughs often end as democracy fades [2d] [hn]
• Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners [2d] [hn]
• LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs into Datasets [2d] [hn]
• PYREX vs. Pyrex: What's the Difference? [2d] [hn]
• Oklahoma's "TV nudes" scandal was Jackie Chan movie on Samsung streaming service [2d] [hn]
• If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents [2d] [hn]
• High-performance read-through cache for object storage [2d] [hn]
• MCP Server Could Have Been a JSON File [2d] [hn]
• Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to Be Agent-First [2d] [hn]
• White House keeps heat on ABC's Maher [2d] [hn]
• Things Managers Do That Leaders Never Would [2d] [hn]
• Grok 4 Fast [2d] [hn]
• Trumpcard (Official US Government Website) [2d] [hn]
• H1Bs will start costing $100k/yr [2d] [hn]
• Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit [2d] [hn]
• Did you read the quarter-million-line license for your Slack app? [2d] [hn]